Word: collections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once chosen, the panel will go into action any time the agency receives ten complaints about a particular odor within 90 days. If the apparent polluter happens to be an industrial concern, for example, investigators will go to the olfactory−as it were−and collect air directly from the smokestack. Each of the three panelists will then be asked to sniff 20 samples−ten from the smokestack and ten consisting of fresh air. If two of the three noses correctly identify eight of both the smoke and fresh air samples−in other words, if the odor...
...year in uncollected revenues. It is estimated, for example, that the country's 2.3 million self-employed people declare only half of their income by such devices as keeping double sets of books and asking for payment in cash. As a result, the government is forced to collect fully 62% of its income through indirect sales taxes reaching as high...
...Washington. But now Martha Mitchell, suffering from multiple myeloma, a bone marrow cancer, and harried, is letting her attorney do the talking. "She is desperately ill, without friends or funds," asserted Lawyer William C. Herman in New York State Supreme Court last week, where he is attempting to collect nine months of back alimony from Martha's estranged husband, former Attorney General John Mitchell. While appealing his conviction for Watergate crimes, Mitchell has not only maintained a private chauffeur, said Herman, but recently received $50,000 of an expected $150,000 advance for a book on Watergate. Despite Mitchell...
...dealer at a discount to a bank, finance company or other lender. The lender proclaims, quite correctly, that as the purchaser of a presumably valid contract-in legal parlance, as a "holder in due course"-he has no responsibility for the merchandise but has a legal right to collect the payments. The consumer is stuck: he must continue paying for a no-good product that nobody will...
Balsam said that according to unemployment law, workers can collect unemployment compensation if the jobs offered to them for the summer differ "substantially" in wages or hours from their regular jobs...